Upcoming event

Pop-up Concert in The Twist

October 12, 2025 kl. 13.00–14.30

On Sunday, October 12, we mark the final opening day of the season with an atmospheric pop-up concert in The Twist.mAt 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM, you can experience two outstanding musicians – Alma Serafin Kraggerud (violin) and Birgitta Elisa Oftestad (cello) – performing virtuosic interpretations of timeless classical masterpieces. The concerts will appear as spontaneous musical moments in the space – each performance lasting around 20 minutes.

Alma Serafin Kraggerud (b. 2006) is one of Norway’s most promising young violinists. She made her solo debut with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (KORK) at the age of nine and has since performed with leading ensembles such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, and several international orchestras.

She has appeared at numerous festivals in Norway and abroad and won the Virtuos competition in 2022, the same year the Oslo Philharmonic premiered her own composition The Untold Myth. Alma is also active as a chamber musician and composer and has performed at major events such as Bodø 2024, Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival in England, and the Arctic Chamber Music Festival on Svalbard.

In spring 2025, she made her debut as the fiddler in Jon Fosse and Bent Sørensen’s new opera Asle and Alida in Bergen and Copenhagen.

Alma plays on a Golden Period Antonio Stradivarius, ex-Karl Klingler from 1720, generously on loan from Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation.

Unknown — Alma Serafin Kraggerud. Photo: Nikolaj Lund

Birgitta Elisa Oftestad began playing the cello at the age of five and studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music, where she was taught by Tove Sinding-Larsen (2009–2015) and Ole Eirik Ree (2015–), with Truls Mørk as secondary teacher. She has been part of Barratt Due’s talent program and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous festivals, including the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Vestfoldfestspillene, Kaunas Festival, Kronberg Mit Musik – Miteinander, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Valdres Summer Festival, Horten Chamber Music Festival, and the Bergen International Festival, where she took part in Crescendo’s chamber music mentor program in 2016 with the clarinet trio DaNiBi under the mentorship of Konstantin Heidrich.

Birgitta has won numerous first prizes, both as a soloist and chamber musician, including the Midgard Competition (2012–2015), Young Musicians in Tallinn (2013), the Sparre-Olsen Competition (2014), and Youth Music Championship (2012, 2014, 2017).

She plays on a F. Ruggieri cello from around 1690, generously on loan from Anders Sveaas’ Charitable Foundation.